1. Morning Prayers:
Candle lit
in catholic arc of stone,
Sitting still,
attuned for daily grace,
I find instead
a taunting separate self
singing the tuneless hymns
of my slumbering morning-prayers.
2. Midday Intercession:
Gathering thoughts at noon,
in midday sun
I seek the light to pray
through clouded mind
for all the broken world;
My calloused heart
so hard to hear
my racing thoughts
so hard to clear
during my struggling noonday-prayers.
3. Evening Prayers:
I come again at end of day;
Prayerwheel’s turned another cog;
My evening rays,
another’s morning mist;
my hours worked,
another’s sleep;
my letting go,
another’s to keep;
And in my dimming evening prayer,
I look at last
beyond the dark and hovering cloud
and find once more
grace enough
to start again.
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